Hosni Mubarak sentenced to three years over graft

CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison on charges of stealing public funds.

“The court orders Mohamed Hosni Mubarak to be sent to jail for three years,” said judge Osama Shaheen as Mubarak looked on from a cage flanked by his sons, who were sentenced to four years in jail on the same charges.

The court fined Mubarak and his sons 21.197 million Egyptian pounds ($2.98 million) and ordered them to repay about 125 million Egyptian pounds of funds the court said they had stolen.

Mubarak’s former intelligence chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is poised to be elected president next week.